Max Verstappen reveals Red Bull’s big weakness after tough race

Max Verstappen pinpoints crucial area hurting Red Bull after tough Bahrain Grand⛎ Prix.

Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen has reeled off a lengthy list of what went wrong for Red Bull in a tough race at the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix.

A week after his stunning, unlikely win in Japan, Verstapp🍌en was brought back down to earth across what turned out to be an incredibly challenging weekend in Bahrain for Red Bull.

The four-time world champion was only able to finish sixth in Bahrain thanks to a last-lap overtake on Alpine’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Pierre Gasly.

But Verstappen was left frustrated by several is𝔍𒈔sues, including two slow pit stops.

“The🦂 st🏅art was not good then the pace was not good in the beginning,” he explained. “Tyres overheating again, the balance was not where I wanted it to be.

“The first pit stop something 🌞went wrong with the lights, they stayed on.

“Now you can dr🎶ive through the lights but that’s not the protocol of the team, so I had to just wait before I realised there was a problem.

“Then I was stuck in traffic, the h🍸ard tyres unfortunately didn’t work. They were just low on grip and even higher deg for me.

“Then we pitted again - an even worse pit s🦋top - so then I was last.

“Considering everything to still finish P6, with the pace we had, is still a good ꦡresult.

“There’s not much more that we could have done.”

Tyre management Red Bull’s Achilles’ Heel

Verstappen pinpointed tyre management as Red Bull’s bigges💧t weakness with their RB21.

“We are bad on tyre managem൲ent at the moment,” he said.

“The balance is not🌼 where I wanted it to be and on a track like this it gets highlighted for suไre.”

Asked if next week🍬end’s race in Jeddah may be better for Red Bull, Verstappen replied: “The tyre degradation will be a bit lower in general but if yoꦅu are poor on tyres, you are poor everywhere with the management.

“Of course there it is a little bit less but it’s still going to be weaker than our compe💙titors. We just need to take that into consideration.

“At least maybe the layout will help a little bit. But tyre managem💛e✤nt stays the same. If you are weak on it, you are weak on it everywhere.

“Even if I would ha👍ve had two mediums, the position would have been the same. I was not at the same level as th💜e cars ahead of me.”

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